Despite a national decline in international student enrollment at universities across the country, Penn’s total international student enrollment increased by 2.1% in the 2024-25 academic year. Recent data from the Institute of International Education — published on Nov. 17 in the 2025 Open Doors report — showed that Penn’s international student enrollment rose from 8,956 to 9,143…
Penn Abroad has paused study abroad applications to King’s College London for most College of Arts and Sciences students, citing increased challenges with KCL’s admissions and course-registration processes. The update — posted last week on Penn Abroad’s Passport website — stated that applications to KCL are suspended for all students except those in the Department of English and…
On Nov. 6, former General Timothy Haugh spoke at a Perry World House event about the global threat landscape and its implications for policymakers, the U.S. economy, and defense. In conversation with Perry World House faculty director and political science professor Michael Horowitz, Haugh — who formerly served as the commander of the United States…
Current University of Pennsylvania affiliates are invited to apply for funding to support travel to the American University in Cairo and the Middle East to participate in research and fieldwork, course development and site visits, meetings with international peers and partners, and/or conference or networking opportunities. Application policies and procedures are in development, but Penn…
This fall, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is co-chairing the Penn Forward “Global Opportunity & New Markets” working group alongside Megan Ryerson, Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design and UPS Foundation Professor. Together, they are exploring how Penn can deepen its global…
Penn’s Middle East Center hosted a talk led by Middle East distinguished visiting scholar Dahlia Scheindlin on the role of data in understanding Israeli and Palestinian attitudes surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. The Oct. 28 event — held at the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics — focused on the Palestinian and Israeli public opinions.…
At 12:00 p.m. local time—or 5:00 a.m. ET—a U.S.-drafted ceasefire agreement went into effect between Israel and Hamas. The agreement is intended to stop the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza and give Israel and Hamas the space to try to arrive at a peace agreement that would permanently end the more than two-years-long war. It would…
On October 6-7, Perry World House hosted its annual security conference. This year’s topic, The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and International Politics, brought together world-leading experts and thinkers to discuss the impact of AI on US-China competition, the use of AI in the military domain, how advances in frontier AI towards artificial general intelligence…
On October 16-17, Perry World House hosted its annual climate conference, this year titled, “Climate Cooperation in Transition.” This workshop, organized in cooperation with the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research’s Global Governance Innovation project, advanced understanding of the rapidly evolving global policy landscape and the future of climate policy within it. The outcomes will be…
Perry World House (PWH) at the University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Affairs magazine are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize is Alicia Chen of Stanford University. Dr. Chen’s article, “How China Uses Aid to Shape the Global Order,” will be published in Foreign Affairs in the coming months.